The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-18

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unassuming, unaffected, and brave; and
that the most stylish and refined ladies
are generally the simplest in their man.
| Ders.
THE SMOKING ROOM
is necessary institution everywhere,
considering that the gradual combus-
ton OF tobacco. and its limitations, is
now one OF the industrieSsof the world.
II there were not some place set apart
for smokers, they would fill the whole
ship with the incense of their offerings
TO the Indian god. The steamer smok-
ing-room is large and comfortably
seated, and has tables where gentlemen
can lay down their cigars when they
want drink OF water or something.
These tables are also adapted to the
reception of curionsly-pictured cards
and pieces OF money of various de
nominaions-which money often
changes hands with great facility. Men
nave been known TO gamble away on
shipboard their entire letters of credit,
to say nothing about those on the great
bank above, Here, too, pools are
formed and sold upon the number of
miles the ship Wal run from one noon
to another. It is pity that we must
carry with US into the waves and storms
the vices of our time as well as its cou-
VenienCes.
We are now in
THE DEVILS HOLE
as an officer informs us-where the
ocean is rough if anywhere. Our great
swimming structure begins to ron from
one side to the other in a way that
lends life to the feet of the furniture and
makes the dishes into ciashing cymbals.
The two lofty smoke stacks CT the
steamer sag slowly to the left as if they
meant TO take a draught of sea-water;
then they raise themselves gradually to
perpendicular again, and sweep, lis
ureiy butinexorahly, as far to the right.
1t is wonderful how such a huge edi-
fee can rock to and fro in this man
ner and not fall with crash. The decks,
for half minute at time. are steep
house.roofs; if you are sitting in a
chair II must be tied fast, or down you
will go to the very,edge of the ship, to
be stopped mercifuiiy, but, perhaps.
violently, by the strong railing. In
these rollings and tumblings people
butt each other, and fall upon each
strange and unexpected intimacies. A
Sockadoodle sort of Old gentleman, who
had been bOasting all about the ship in
three different languages, concerning
the experiences of twenty eight voyages,
and whose pompOsity had excited the
amused awe of the whole ship. went
down on all tours little while ago, his
hat falling one way, his eyeglasses an
other, and he clutched wildly around
the legs of an honest and sturdy-pinned
DutChm2n to whom he had never
thought of speaking.
This rolling of the ship has caused
many passengers to overhaul their re-
clpes for the cure and prevention of
sEA-sICKNEss-
the strange and unique disease which
comes and goes so suddenly. The sea-
sick passenger is an object of misery
and a subject of compassion. Hardly
able TO crawl upon deck-disliking to
cucumber the saloons, and if in his own
birth subject to bad and sitting air
feeling as if he had the world within
him and could not get it out; dizzy,
lonesome, heart-sick made into a cata-
pult and banged from one side of his
birth to the other whenever the ship
makes a lurCh-What wonder that he
half-afraid he will die, and half afraid
he Will not!
THE CAUSE
of sea sickness has been much dis
cussed, but IS probably. mostly the lack
of good air. said that eur ship car
ried all the conveniences of the land
but one thing she and all other ships
lack, as yet, and that is constant and
plentiful supply of fresh air to every
inhabited room in the ship, Machinery
will sometimes accomplish this, and
the genius whose brains and soul di-
reefs it will cure nineteen twentieths of
the tourists dread, and be thanked
with monument in every ship-sailing
land.
But look What is that2 A cloud?
No; for clouds do not have
light houses upon them. 1t is the
element for which we were born-the
grand, stable substance upon which
we Ret foot and know that it will stay
(barring cyclones and earthquakes,
the firm, reck-hulled deck of the world
for which we have loaged while pac-
ing the deck, grasping for our food, or
tossing and tossed in our berths-
LAND!
1t was once six months from land to
land-three months-tWenty days-ff-
teen days-ten days-now it is seven
DAYS and halfi And, netwithstand-
ing the many pleasures and excitements
of an ocean voyage, let US all pray that
it will soon be Eve days, with leaning
toward four.
And so, grand old ship, geed-by for
time, and away enee more toward the
rising sun. WILL CARLETON.
a Triple Alliance lssa1SE